On May 22nd, Prof. Zheng Bentuo from University of Memphis, was invited to give a lecture entitled "History, Developments and Open Problems on Approximation Properties" to the students and teachers of SUES, so as to further enhance the research innovation ability of the research team of the School of Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, and to better understand the international frontier in the field of Banach Space Theory. The lecture was hosted by Associate Prof. Zhou Yu.
The presentation first introduced the history of classical approximation properties and important results of Banach spaces, then explained the relationship between strong approximation properties and weakly bounded approximation properties, and finally discussed the latest progress and related open problems by introducing E-approximation properties. In the lecture, Prof. Zheng explained in depth the difficult problems that have not yet been solved, and encouraged the teachers to develop new ideas and find new methods to jointly produce high-quality research results for the field of the Banach Space Theory. The participating teachers and students also had a lively discussion around the questions raised by Prof. Zheng. The lecture was very informative and opened up the international perspective of teachers of the team of Applied Functional Analysis.
Prof. Zheng Bentuo, received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Texas A&M University, USA. He has obtained many outstanding results in the field of the Banach Space Theory. Prof. Zheng Bentuo presided two NSF projects and one NSFC-RGC project. He has published more than 40 high level papers in international mathematical journals such as Duke Math.
